Citizen Nader

Description for CITIZEN NADER by Charles McCarry: Here is the first objective portrait of the man whose war with the corporate state may alter forever the balance between public and private power in this country. Approaching Ralph Nader and his work as neither an adversary nor an advocate, Charles McCarry succeeds brilliantly in humanizing the complex, elusive man behind the headlines. The brouhaha attending the publication in 1965 of his book, UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED, made Nader an instant public figure: a hero to many; to others anathema, bent on nothing less than the destruction of the free enterprise system. CITIZEN NADER deals incisively with both versions of this quixotic figure who has had the audacity to tilt with such giants as General Motors and Union Carbide and thinks nothing of attacking such canny politicians and sometime allies as Edmund Muskie and Abraham Ribicoff. The atmosphere is which Nader works, the methods he employs, and the people he attracts are fully